Jane Eyre Question 1

Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte in 1847. Along with Emily Bronte, Charlotte writes very beautifully and you never know what she is going to write next. For example, "Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity." (Bronte 230) She uses different and interesting words which makes it so eloquent. As an author, Charlotte values love because she knows it doesn't come easily. Through her writing she shows us that you can't make someone love you, you just have to wait. Bronte wrote Jane Eyre in first person and the narrator was Jane Eyre. As the narrator, Jane told the story partially while the events were actually happening and the other part of the story she told what her understanding was of the events. At one part of the story, Jane talks about an event that happened fifteen years later. "Her [Helen] grave is in Brocklebridge church-yard; for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a gray marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word "Resurgam." (Bronte 98) "Resurgam" means "I shall rise again."

Brontë, Charlotte, Susan Ostrov. Weisser, and George Stade. Jane Eyre. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. Print.